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ExecutorElassus
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 Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 2:46 pm Post subject: Setting urxvt font [SOLVED] |
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I've followed this tutorial to set up my .Xresources file, which contains the following lines:
| Code: | URxvt.font: xft:Iosevka:style=Regular:pixelsize=10
URxvt.boldFont: xft:Iosevka:style=Bold:pixelsize=10 |
However, when I start a new terminal, the font it uses is still the basic terminal font (ie, the same one I see when booting up). How do I fix that? fc-list reports the following Iosevka fonts available:
| Code: | $ fc-list | grep Iosevka
/usr/share/fonts/iosevka/Iosevka.ttc: Iosevka,Iosevka Extralight Oblique:style=Extralight Oblique,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/iosevka/Iosevka.ttc: Iosevka,Iosevka Extrabold Extended:style=Extrabold Extended,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/iosevka/Iosevka.ttc: Iosevka,Iosevka Extended:style=Bold Extended,Bold
/usr/share/fonts/iosevka/Iosevka.ttc: Iosevka Fixed,Iosevka Fixed Medium Extended:style=Medium Extended,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/iosevka/Iosevka.ttc: Iosevka Term:style=Bold Italic
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(etc etc.)
Ideally, I'd have it set to use Iosevka Term, since I'm assuming that's optimized for use with terminal emulators.
Cheers,
EE
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Anon-E-moose
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't used X in forever, but in the .X files left over I use urxvt* vs URxvt.*, don't remember why.
commented out:
| Code: | ! URxvt.font: 10x20,\
! -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1, \
! [codeset=JISX0208]xft:Kochi Gothic:antialias=false, \
! xft:Code2000:antialias=false |
used and working the last time I used X:
| Code: | urxvt*font: xft:dejavusansmono:size=14,\
xft:dejavusansmono:style=Bold:size=14,\
[codeset=JISX0208]xft:Kochi Gothic:antialias=false,\
xft:Code2000:antialias=false |
IIRC, the 1st line is regular text, the 2nd is bold, don't remember what 3rd and 4th line represent, probably in the man page.
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ExecutorElassus
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| hrm, nope, that doesn't seem to have helped. Could there be some system-level config file that would override it? |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Perhaps an obvious question, but did you check the output of xrdb -query to confirm that your changes are visible to X applications? |
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ExecutorElassus
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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I get this:
| Quote: | $ xrdb -query
*background: rgb:10/10/10
*color0: rgb:20/20/20
*color1: rgb:CC/00/00
*color10: rgb:8a/e2/34
*color11: rgb:fc/e9/4f
*color12: rgb:72/9f/cf
*color13: rgb:ad/7f/a8
*color14: rgb:34/e2/e2
*color15: rgb:ee/ee/ec
*color2: rgb:4e/9a/06
*color3: rgb:c4/a0/00
*color4: rgb:34/65/a4
*color5: rgb:75/50/7b
*color6: rgb:06/98/9a
*color7: rgb:d3/d7/cf
*color8: rgb:75/77/73
*color9: rgb:ef/29/29
URxvt*buffered: true
URxvt*externalBorder: 8
URxvt*hold: false
URxvt*internalBorder: 8
URxvt*perl-lib: /usr/lib64/urxvt/perl/
URxvt.background: [78]#000000
URxvt.borderLess: false
URxvt.clipboard.autocopy: true
URxvt.cursorBlink: false
URxvt.depth: 32
URxvt.fading: 25%
URxvt.foreground: grey80
URxvt.geometry: 90x32
URxvt.imLocale: de_DE.UTF-8
URxvt.inheritPixmap: False
URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-Left: perl:tabbedex:move_tab_left
URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-R: perl:tabbedex:rename_tab
URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-Right: perl:tabbedex:move_tab_right
URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-T: perl:tabbedex:new_tab
URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-Tab: perl:tabbedex:prev_tab
URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-W: perl:tabbedex:kill_tab
URxvt.keysym.Control-Tab: perl:tabbedex:next_tab
URxvt.keysym.M-Escape: perl:keyboard-select:activate
URxvt.keysym.M-c: perl:clipboard: copy
URxvt.keysym.M-s: perl:keyboard-select:search
URxvt.keysym.M-v: perl:clipboard: paste
URxvt.lineSpace: 1
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,clipboard,keyboard-select,tabbedex
URxvt.saveLines: 20000
URxvt.scrollBar: false
URxvt.scrollstyle: plain
URxvt.tabbedex.autohide: true
URxvt.tabbedex.new-button: false
URxvt.tabbedex.no-tabbedex-keys: true
URxvt.tabbedex.reopen-on-close: no
URxvt.tabbedex.tab-bg: 0
URxvt.tabbedex.tab-fg: 3
URxvt.tabbedex.tabbar-bg: 0
URxvt.tabbedex.tabbar-fg: 2
URxvt.termName: rxvt-unicode-256color
URxvt.tintColor: #262626
URxvt.underlineURLs: false
Xft.dpi: 100
Xft.rgba: rgba
urxvt*boldFont: xft:Iosevka:style=Bold:pixelsize=10
urxvt*font: xft:Iosevka:style=Regular:pixelsize=10
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So … looks like it? Maybe my terminal is just so small I can't distinguish the font? How would I check?
ETA: no, it's definitely not using Iosevka; I looked closely and the glyphs are definitely something else. So where else would the vt's font be set? |
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Anon-E-moose
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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Does it show if you do this: (from a running terminal)
| Code: | | urxvt -fn "xft:Iosevka:style=Regular:pixelsize=10" |
You can also look at the man page "man 7 urxvt" and look for "How does rxvt-unicode choose fonts?"
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ExecutorElassus
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Sigh. Thank you for pointing out the blind spot. I was starting the terminal from a root menu that bound the menu item to a urxvt command that specified the font. Changing it in that config fixed the issue (starting urxvt from a command is what made me ask myself how I was starting urxvt in the first place).
Marked as solved. Cheers,
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